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For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. Reba McEntire What does a sad song do for you? Does it make you cry, make you snuffle for the Kleenex, make you feel like you are […]

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa-for he has so much to look forward to-Richard Mullin Not in a million years would I have felt this way a few years ago. But having been lucky enough to go to Africa last year, I believe it now..what a […]

Every great film should seem new every time you see it. Roger Ebert Hello Blog Family, Between family, friends and vacation, it has been a super duper month of cooking, entertaining, eating, drinking, traveling and a lot of really great connecting. I love summer! But now back to blogging and all of that important information […]

The purity of a person’s heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals. Uh Oh…I’m in trouble…not so pure of heart I guess…because although I love animals, my track record as a pet owner has not been exactly stellar. I tried, I really, really tried….through many years of our family acquiring and […]

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Ok, I tried…really, really tried to remember this quote from the Bible, but I so love […]

“There is much more to being a redhead than the color of one’s hair-G. Adam Stanislav The realization that I had a different color hair occurred around the age of 4. As I recall, I was walking with my Granny Pie (yup) across a railroad track in Belmont, Long Island, New York, when the train conductor at […]

“Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is the rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.” Fran Lebowitz, journalist I love cold soup […]

“I’m a fabricaholic on the road to recovery. Just kidding, I’m on the road to the fabric store.” My love of sewing began at an early age. As one of six children, and the fourth girl in the family, I soon realized that hand-me-downs would be my life if I didn’t figure something out. […]

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero I am not a gardener, not by any stretch of the imagination, but I do love to see things grow (maybe that’s why we had 4 kids). So when the children were little, I decided to plant a vegetable garden […]

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ― Henry James Digging to China! No I am not kidding…one summer my siblings and I spent an enormous amount of time digging a giant hole in our backyard……we just knew that if we worked hard enough, eventually we […]